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What is the difference between Intellectual Disability, Developmental Disability, and IDD?

 People. May often  what is difference between intellectual disability AND  developmental disability?

 Developmental Disability is disabilities that start before  18 years old .   These   Kinds of disabilities can include limitations in cognition, motor performance, vision, hearing and speech, or behavior.  Some examples of these types of disabilities are ADHD, Tourette syndrome, epilepsy, spina bifida, fetal alcohol syndrome , Cerebral palsy, Down syndrome, Fragile X syndrome, and autism spectrum disorders .

      Intellectual disabilities is  characterized by mental limitations and difficulty with adaptive behaviors. Part of this means lower than normal  having a harder time doing daily  living tasks.  Some examples of syndromes that may result in intellectual disabilities are Down syndrome, fragile x syndrome, fetal alcohol syndrome, and Prader-Willi syndrome.

 I hope this  help explain the difference between those  two types of disabilities.

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@Heartsandrosesandpaws

Perhaps it may help to include the sources of this information? For further reading too. :D

I appreciate you for putting together educational posts as these. <3

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calmMango9611 October 26th

@Sunisshiningandsoareyou I agree. 

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MistyMagic October 14th

Thanks for posting Paws.

@Heartsandrosesandpaws. Thanks for explaining this 👍.

theboymoana October 14th

@Heartsandrosesandpaws

yes and other thing learning disabilities not same intellectual disability 

nahoa got developmental disability intellectual disability learning disability 

all different or would not be allow diagnose all them same time 

AffyAvo October 18th

Thanks for sharing this! I do see a lot of things that use them interchangeably. 

Is it fair to say all intellectual disabilities that occur in childhood are also developmental disabilities? Not all developmental disabilities are intellectual disabilities though.

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calmMango9611 October 26th

@AffyAvo Same here. 

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calmMango9611 October 26th

@Heartsandrosesandpaws Thanks for educating us.